Seine.



PATENTED APR. 21, 1903..

I. E. PALMER.

SHINE.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR. 16, 1901.

N0 MODEL.

o'roufgdl. wuumumu o c PATENT OFFICE.

IsAA E. PALMER, on MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT.

same.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 725,988, dated'April 21, 1903.

7' Application filed March 16, 19111. Serial No. 51,419. (No model.) I

To all whom. it may concern.-

Be it known that I, IsA C'E; PALMER, a citi zen of the-United States, and aresident of Middletown, in the county of Middlesex and My inventionrelates to an improvement in" seines, and moreparticularly to seines used for surrounding a school of fish and then hauling the same onto the shore, commonly called hauling seines or nets, or seines set vertically and either fastened or allowed to float with'the tide for-the purpose of guiding or gilling the fish.

The object is to materially reduce the cost of manufacture and atthe same time provide an efficient and durable seine of the above character.

A practical embodiment of my invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a view in elevation of a portion of the seine as it appears when in use. Fig. 2 is an enlarged viewin end elevation. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the same. Fig. 4 is a vertical transverse section through the seine. Fig. 5 is a bottom'plan view, and Fig.

6 is a sectional view, of one ofthe sinkers as" it appears before it is clamped to the lowe edge of the seine.

The seine consists in the present instance} of a woven gauze fabric a, as distinguished from a knitted seine, such as is well known in the art. It is provided at one or both of its edges-preferably both-with a cord or cords, (denoted by b 0,) which may be woven into the opposite edges of the net or. I further find it desirable to strengthen the selvage edges of the fabric a by an additional number of warp-threads, as at d and 6, thereby giving the fabric sufficient strength to permit of clamping the sinkers directly to the fabric without the intervention of the cord, if so desired, where there is not liable to be much strain exerted upon the seine and where its lower edge is not liable to be dragged over rough bottom.

The floats are denoted by f and may be of into the position clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 4, inwhich position the edge of the seine may be secured by means of staples 71 1;, driven into the opposite edges of the float just below the position of the cordb.

The sinkers (denoted by j) are provided with kerfs k in their upper edges extending downwardly to their central portions, or to a suflicient depth to give them an-extended bearing on the opposite sides of the lower edge of the net and of sufficient width to permit the lower selvage edge 6, together with the cord 0, when it is employed, to enter freely. After the lower edge of the net has beenplaced in the kerf la the opposite walls ofthe kerf 70 are pressed toward each other by pressure upon the opposite sides of the sinker, causing the soft metalsuch, for example, as lead-of which the sinkeris preferably composed to bind tightly upon the opposite sides of the lower selvage edge, se-

' V The "facility with which 'the". floats and 'sinkers may be attached at any intervals desired without the usual stringing and the subsequent fastening of the string to the net and the readiness with which they (the sinkers and floats) may be removed at pleasure and replaced when lost or damaged renders the structure disclosed a simple and inexpensive one, while at the same time it is eflicient and durable.

It is obvious that so far as the means of attaching the sinkers is concerned they might be attached to the ordinary knitted seine in the same manner as to the woven fabric herein shown. I

What I claim is' A seine comprising awoven fabric having cords interwoven with its opposite edges and sinkers secured to one edge and floats secured my invention I have signed my name, in presto the opposite edge, the said sinkers and ence of two witnesses, this 5th (lay of March floats being provided with kerfs for receiv- 1901.

ing the respective edges of the fabric and ISAAC E. PALMER. 5 means for locking the fabric in the kerfs, Witnesses:

substantially as set forth. CHAS. M. SAUER,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as PAUL S. CARRIER. 

